Mad Men's Matthew Weiner is a shockingly wonderful novelist

Matthew Weiner created Mad Men. Then he wrote an absolutely perfect novel.

Matthew Weiner in 2014.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

Triumphant second acts are not the career norm for former television showrunners and creators. Some move on to developing TV shows with members of One Direction, others effectively retire. Even if talented writers and auteurs find success on a different project, rarely if ever do they venture to other mediums. This isn't just true of the entertainment world. After all, no one talks with reverence about Michael Jordan's baseball career.

But Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, in between writing and running one of the most lauded series in TV history, and lining up his next television project, wrote a novel. And it's wondrous.

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Nandini Balial

Nandini Balial is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Republic, Vice, SlateWiredThe Texas Observer, and Lit Hub, among others. She reluctantly lives in Fort Worth, Texas.